Watering Can with Flowers
Watering Can with Flowers is a free machine embroidery design digitized at 64.1 × 59.2 mm with 4,224 stitches in 14 thread colors. Expect roughly 7 minutes of stitch-out time on a home machine. Download it below in PES format, ready to transfer to your machine.
Pattern Details
- Craft
- Machine Embroidery
- Colors
- 14
- Stitches
- 4,224
- Design Size
- 64.1 × 59.2 mm
- Recommended Hoop
- 4" × 4" (100 × 100 mm)
- Est. Stitch-Out Time
- ~7 min
- Color Changes
- 13
- Trims
- 2
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
Download Files
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Stitching Color Sequence
Thread order as programmed in the file — follow along at your machine.
| # | Thread | Stitches |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 704 · 19 | 1,642 |
| 2 | 707 · 23 | 350 |
| 3 | 058 · 24 | 697 |
| 4 | 513 · 14 | 147 |
| 5 | 515 · 56 | 145 |
| 6 | 214 · 11 | 33 |
| 7 | 085 · 43 | 51 |
| 8 | 010 · 18 | 149 |
| 9 | 058 · 24 | 240 |
| 10 | 704 · 19 | 176 |
About This Design
This watering can with flowers and butterfly design stitches out at 64.1 × 59.2 mm (2.5 × 2.3 in) and uses 14 thread colors across 13 color changes. Total count is 4,224 stitches at a density of about 111.3 stitches/cm².
At The Machine
- Estimated stitch-out time: ~7 minutes at 600 spm
- Color changes: 13, automatic trims: 2
- Follow the color sequence table above — thread numbers refer to the chart programmed in the file; match them to your brand by color.
Fabric & Hooping
At about 111.3 stitches/cm² the fill is moderate: one layer of medium-weight cut-away handles most wovens, while knits want a second layer or a fusible backing. At 64.1 × 59.2 mm a 4×4 in hoop is plenty.
Thread Colors in This Design
The file carries 14 thread colors — these are the DMC references programmed into it:
- 704 19
- 707 23
- 058 24
- 513 14
- 515 56
- 214 11
- 085 43
- 010 18
- 058 24
- 704 19
- 070 4
- 208 12
…plus 2 more in the full color sequence above.
Stitching Notes
14 colors across 13 changes makes this a real thread-management job: lay the spools out in sequence order first and keep the color chart to hand. Being a PES file, the thread assignments come embedded, so most machines will display the color list for you.
What to Make With It
Motifs like this scatter well — single placements on pockets and yokes, or repeated across a quilt block, a set of napkins or a child's blanket. It reads the same at any orientation, so placement is forgiving.
